Friends, do ya’ll remember as kids getting tickled at something and not being able to stop laughing? It didn’t matter what was going on around you, you were laughing and couldn’t stop! And it usually was contagious to any other kid nearby!
I remember this happening lots of times, even in church! But there is one time it happened that I will never forget! We were going to Memphis for something, and Emory, John Barry, Jeff, and I were riding in the back of the pickup.
Now don’t freak out, this was pretty common back then. Kids rode in the back! I didn’t say it was safe, just that we did it! Dad had one of those old camper covers and we were under it, sitting in lawn chairs, looking backward! Now you can add up all the things wrong with that picture!
Well, we stopped for gas, and had the back window up, and apparently the old boy who pumped the gas didn’t know how to duck his head — but he was fixing to learn!
He came running around the corner and — WHAM! — he ran straight into the corner of that window!
It shook the whole pickup!
Of course, he screamed out some cuss words while holding his head; he even put his old grease rag on it to stop the bleeding! But he was a tough one; he went ahead and started the gas pump, and then he started to go doctor up!
Here is where we got so tore up laughing…
When he started back around the pickup, John Barry hollered out, “Duck! Duck!” to which he responded with some more unkind words!
We just fell out laughing at this poor guy, holding a grease rag on his head, and cussing like a sailor!
And we knew he was going to come back directly to turn of the pump! So after we quit laughing long enough to get a breath, John Barry said, “When he comes back, let’s all scream DUCK at the same time!”
We waited till he came back, turned off the pump, and started back around the back, and then we all screamed DUCK! at the top of our lungs, and you ain’t going to believe what happened next!
Yep, he ran into that window again!!
Now, we just couldn’t help it — we fell down laughing!
He continued to spray cuss words into the air and we continued to laugh!
He was still cussing up a storm while we drove off!
Oh the things we remember from our childhood!
And life goes on, on Thompson Hill!
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Love your stories, your life growing up was much like mine we had so much love and fun in our family. We thought we were poor but now I know we were rich and God keeps blessing us we were a family of 10 that has grown to a family of 106. Mom and Dad are gone but they live every day in our hearts.